Re: xconsole messages
On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Dale Miller wrote:
> I am trying to get messages to appear on the xconsole under
> xdm. I have altered syslog.conf and the xdm startup files.
> Still noe messages. Is this in a FAQ somewhere because I
> can't find it. Any help getting xconsole to spew messages
> would be appreciated.
1) Have a line like this in your syslog.conf:
auth.*;daemon.*;mail.*;news.crit;news.err;news.notice;*.=debug;*.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;cron.none |/dev/xconsole
The '|' is the imporant character. It tells syslogd that the file is a fifo.
2) Make the fifo like this (as root):
mkfifo -m 644 /dev/xconsole
3) Run xconsole like this:
xconsole -file /dev/xconsole
It should work beautifully. What you may be missing is step 2. That's
documented in the syslog.conf man pages.
Guy
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